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Eric Priezkalns

During his career, Eric has been a Director of Risk Management for a national telco, the Chief Executive of the Risk & Assurance Group, a Chief Marketing Officer for a software business, a consultant, a public speaker and the publisher of Commsrisk since its launch in 2006. Look here for more about the history of Commsrisk and the role played by Eric.

The comms providers that Eric has worked for include Qatar Telecom, Cable & Wireless, T‑Mobile, Sky and Worldcom. In addition to his proficiency at speaking about the current scamdemic, Eric is also a qualified chartered accountant and a subject matter expert in consumer protection, enterprise risk management, fraud prevention, data integrity and billing accuracy. Eric was the lead author of Revenue Assurance: Expert Opinions for Communications Providers, published by CRC Press. He can be reached through the contact form on this website.

Articles by This Author

SOCs, ROCs & NOCs: Unforeseen challenges as security and assurance converge

Does your telco have a SOC? That was the most fundamental question raised during the pre-conference training workshop at the WeDo WWUG14 user...

The Curious Case of the Vanishing Targets

I have a very serious point to make today. But in order to make it, I will start with a comic daydream...Usain Bolt...

Basset Acquired for $10mn

Basset, the Swedish revenue management software firm, has been purchased by Enghouse Systems for USD10mn. You can see the press release here.Though their...

Subex Aims To Be A $100mn Business Within 3 Years

People keep asking me about Subex, the Indian business assurance vendor, like I should know all about its inner workings. Or rather, they...

UK RAG Meets Tomorrow

The UK Revenue Assurance Group is meeting tomorrow, and there is a full agenda for those attending, including talks and workshops on:how one international...

This Is What Happens When Telcos Treat People Like Machines

The relationship between people and machines has been a recurring theme on talkRA. I discuss the tension between people and machines a lot....

The Lamest Accuracy Project Ever?

Imagine this advertising campaign...Good news for all PhoneyTel customers!!!!Previously your bills were only 70% accurate. We're very sorry about that. We let...

Demoting People to Promote Software: The TM Forum RA Maturity Model v2

***Sigh***I really have better things to do than to write a blog about everything that is wrong with the TM Forum's new Revenue Assurance...

Podcasts, more or less

I like to think I have learned a thing or two about internet audiences, thanks to running talkRA. But I can always learn...

GO Malta Purchases Subex ROC Via Novel Managed Services-to-Licenced Software Deal

Maltese multiplay operator GO is not the largest telco in the world, and they cannot be described as early adopters of Subex's ROC solutions...

Moneyball, Hadoop, Cloud, and Assurance

Check out this interview given by Peter Mueller, Chief Technology Officer at ATS, to Dan Baker of Black Swan. Mueller gives a refreshing,...

Subex FY14 Results: Rising revenues, heavy finance burden, taking the long view

Subex, the Indian business assurance vendor, has released their results for the financial year ending 31st March 2014. The topline news is good:...

The Commsrisk Global Fraud Dashboard


Our Global Fraud Dashboard uses AI-powered search to collate, update and visualize data about scams and other network abuses from around the world. New charts are added each month. See it here.

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